Word: guerrillas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rwandan Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu said the new government's victorious guerrilla army will move into the French-protected "safe zone" when French troops leave on Monday. That move could activate the fears of several hundred thousand Hutu refugees huddled there, many of whom don't trust their old foes to spare the rod of revenge after Rwanda's civil war. U.N. officials, who had begged France to extend its Rwandan mission, today said the number of Hutus poised to flee to refugee camps across the Zairian border had reached "critical but not yet catastrophic" proportions. U.N. peacekeepers now believe...
...Jack, played by Harrison Ford, will ultimately testify before a Senate committee, it all starts with a President and his men deciding to insert a small guerrilla force into Colombia to hit one of the cocaine cartels. This is done in deep secrecy, and among those left out of the loop is Jack. After escaping an ambush, he learns that the men in suits are selling out the troops in the field and even trying to do a deal with one of the drug lords...
From his earliest days, Kagame has been caught up in the country's turmoil. Born in southern Rwanda, he was taken to Uganda at the age of two when his parents fled anti-Tutsi pogroms. He grew up in a refugee camp. After high school, he became a guerrilla fighter in the Ugandan rebel army, where he rose to chief of military intelligence. When the R.P.F. invaded Rwanda in 1990, Kagame was taking an officers' course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The assault foundered when Major General Fred Rwigyema was killed. Kagame flew back to take charge. "Hundreds had died...
...R.P.F. leader, Kagame was a brilliant guerrilla tactitian and a strict disciplinarian, banning alcohol and discouraging sex. Tolerant and inclusive, he broadened the movement to include members of all factions, provided they shared his democratic sentiments. Conflicts between Tutsi and Hutu, he told TIME's Marguerite Michaels last week, "are not a problem. We will work...
Moreover, the United States has a long history of intervention in the region that many have not forgotten. The "attaches" have pledged to take to the hills and conduct guerrilla operations against U.S. troops. American forces would take casualties weekly...